Starving for Data: Eating Disorders Prevalence and Research Gaps in Southern Africa

Studies were few, methodologically diverse, and culturally heterogeneous. Key recommendations for future research include examining factors related to globalization and food insecurity and their potential interplay with the manifestation of eating disorder symptomatology, exploring the roles of ethnicity and sex, evaluating the cultural appropriateness of (Western) standardized assessment tools, and incorporating more diverse samples.